Research and Planning-Costume & Prop List

When i am making my magazine, this is some of the equipment i might need:

A musical keyboard & many other musical instruments
Clothing that's suits the genre of house music
A microphone stand
Posters of artists in the Background

Research and Planning-Questionnaire

This is my questionnaire about music. This was done to collect peoples thoughts on what music magazine they would want to read about the most and what music magazine they would least want to read about. I did my questionnaire on Microsoft word and then i printed out 10 copies to give to 10 people in my class. I asked 8 questions on my questionnaire and after each question, I provided several options below.  I then used my research to create 8 pie charts on Microsoft Power Point. Here are my results below:

Research and Planning-My First Podcast

Research and Planning-Contents Page Analysis

My Contents page analysis


The genre of my music magazine is house music. You can notice this by looking at the contents page as it consists of a black and white theme. You can also distinguish that this is a house music magazine as it has a picture of a man aged in roughly his 20's. This can help me notice the genre of this magazine as the general target audience of this magazine is men aged between 18-30. These are just a couple of features that help me notice that this is a house music magazine but there are also others. The writing on the page is big and bold which stands out immensely to the audience. The writing seems to be a tecno font style which is the main font for a house music magazine. This tends to grab a younger audience and this addition would encourage the reader to read on and read the articles.  The representation of this magazine. The camera angle of the men on this contents page is a medium-close up and you can specially tell that this is a contents page as it has a page number. This contents page also includes stories down the left hand side of the page. This is done to enable the audience to find what they want to read about easier. It also includes other colours like gold/yellow which is used to make the text stand out even more.

Research and Planning-Magazine Target Audience

Categorizing My Audience

Age-The age of my target audience is young adults like people aged between 18-30 who like to go out and party and have a good time.

Gender-The majority of my audience that I am aiming at attracting is mostly young men as there is mostly male artists that come under the genre of house music. However, I am hoping to attract females at the same age range of 18-30, because they also like to party so i will include a variety of colours.

Occupation-The audience will probably have some form of job or may be in college or university.

Class-I would probably say that the class that magazine will attract is working or middle class.

Wealth-People who are earning at least the minimum wage as they would spend money on gigs.

Interests-People would have interests like house music, partying and possibly drinking if they are interested in this magazine.

Outlook for future-People would need to be receiving some sort of income to spend money on parties and to just simply have a great time.

How am I going to reach them- I would try to reach them by including more masculine colours, and less of pink and purple. Most people that read these magazines are men and the colours mainly consist of a black and white theme.

Research and Planning-magazine masthead

This is my masthead that i am planning to use for my music magazine.

Research and Planning-Music Magazine Analysis

The genre of this music magazine is house music. You can tell as the colours of a music magazine usually include the colours black and white. The colour pink is also added to this magazine to show a bit of variation and the different rage of colours from brightness to dull colours allows me to imagine that anything could happen while you are listening to house music. To me pink is a symbol of joy and excitement and black and whites shows signs of confusion.

Representation- This magazine front cover shows a people of raving and dances with their hands in thee air jumping up and down and look isolated and are probably oblivious to what is around them. I came to this conclusion because blackness symbols isolation. The people could be isolated from alll their problems in the outside world when they are listening to house music.

Audience- The audience that this magazine targets is mainly at 18-30 year olds. I get this impression because young people are generally the ones that are out there partying and raving and the fact that the magazine is called "Future Music" suggests to me that they are the future. 

Media Language- The shot type that has been used on this magazine front cover is an established shot. This represents the minds of the people that are raving as their minds are completely lost in the distance.

Research and Planning-Music Magazine Analysis

The genre of this magazine is house music. You can tell that this is a a house music magazine because of the colours as a house music magazine generally consists of black and white. This sort of magazine also contains pictures of mostly men just like this one for example. There are many major artists that come under the genre of house music such as, Example, Eric Prydz and David Guetta. The font style is usually a techno type style which is big and bald and immediately catches the eye of the viewer straight away.

Representation- There is a man with his arms up in the air that looks like he is singing at the top of his voice. He looks like he's acting like there is no tomorrow and he doesn't give a care in the world. The man is also lighted up in red which suggests to me there that he is going all out and that there is a fear of danger about to approach him but he just simply doesn't care.

Audience- People aged between about 18-30 who generally like to rave and party. You can tell by the way the guy is raving on the front cover and the fact that the title is called "Future Music" implies that the viewers who would probably be 18-30 year old's are the future.

Media Language- The camera shot that has been used on this front cover is a medium close up. This shot type is where the camera focuses on the head and shoulders. A picture of a DJ mix is present on this front cover. This would be present as there are many major DJ's that come under the genre of house music such as David Guetta and Eric Prydz.